The trial at bar of Sir Roger C D Tichborne, bart., in the Court of Queen's bench at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr Justice Mellor, & Mr Justice Lush, for perjury, commencing Wednesday, April 23, 1873, and ending Saturday, February 28, 1874 . dered to be prose-cuted under the name of Thomas Castro, falsely caUing himselfSir KooEU TicirnoENE. To those who still believe theprisoner in Newgate is the man wo can only address the words ofthe Attorney-General:—Is it to be expected in the TichborneCase tliat people are to take leave of their senses ? I never hearda perso
The trial at bar of Sir Roger C D Tichborne, bart., in the Court of Queen's bench at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr Justice Mellor, & Mr Justice Lush, for perjury, commencing Wednesday, April 23, 1873, and ending Saturday, February 28, 1874 . dered to be prose-cuted under the name of Thomas Castro, falsely caUing himselfSir KooEU TicirnoENE. To those who still believe theprisoner in Newgate is the man wo can only address the words ofthe Attorney-General:—Is it to be expected in the TichborneCase tliat people are to take leave of their senses ? I never hearda person say you are to believe a thing because it is improbable. You heap monstrous improbability upon monstrous improbability,and the monstrous nature of each of them is tlie reason why weshould swallow them all, though they are beyond the reach ofhuman probability. The objectof this compilation is to establishthat proposition for the comprehension of all readers. Something of the kind has been rendered necessary by theaudacity with which the prisoner has dared to appeal to for assistance ! This is an additional outrage on publicmorality. The man not only acknowledged himself a barefacedliar in the witness-box, not only admitted that lie had raised. DR. KENEALY. money on a fictitious will, and wrote letters which he falsely de-clared to be forgeries ; not only confessed to other evil doings, butalso most foully slandered a lady in open Court, standing besideher husband. He has done, according to his motto, what a man with plenty brains and no money can do with men who hasplenty of money and no brains. Dr. Kenealy, Q,. C. (with himllr. MMahon), now moved, hesaid, that Mr. Koutledge be caUed upon peremptorily to answerfor contempt committed in thepublication of the book. Justice iSLACKBURN : On whnse behalf do you apply? Dr. Keneaxy ; I hardly know whether I ought to apply on be-half of the Court or on behalf of Sir Roger Tichbobne. Justice Blackbuen ; Surely you know whet
Size: 1529px × 1633px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorgreatbritaincourtofki, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870
